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The National Quality Forum’s so-called never events are rare enough that private insurers say they don’t expect to see a big financial savings at first. In Minnesota, where hospitals are required by law to report such errors, 154 never events were reported last year out of 9 million hospital admissions. Rather, the idea is to spur more attention to safety and public reporting of mistakes. “It’s not a matter of not paying for them. It’s about getting them not to happen in the first place,” said Thomas Granatir, director of policy and research at Humana Inc., which is working on a policy similar to Medicare’s.
INFECTIONS’ TOLL The more common errors offer the biggest potential for savings — in both lives and money. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that patients develop 1. 7 million infections in hospitals a year, causing or contributing to as many as 99, 000 deaths a year. On
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